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DescriptionOil Portrait of Maharaja Virendra Mohan Dar of Akhnoor.jpg
English: A formal oil-on-canvas portrait of Maharaja Virendra Mohan Dhar (1758–1821), commissioned in Kashmir when the Maharaja was 26 years old (c. 1784). The work captures the transition of Kashmiri courtly fashion, showing the subject in a classic cream angarkha and fine pashmina shawl by Claude H. Sterling. This is a photographic reproduction (c. 1888) of a now-lost oil-on-canvas portrait of Maharaja Virendra Mohan Dar (1758–1821), originally painted circa 1784 in Kashmir. The original painting was brought to the Dhar Zamindar Bari in Dhaka in 1818, where it remained until its deterioration and eventual loss by 1901 due to age and lack of preservation. The present image is based on an 1888 photograph of the original artwork, later subject to restoration, which may account for its comparatively smooth tonal quality and enhanced detail.
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Source Portraits of the Northern Plains: 1780–1900" (Folio III, Plate 22). Attributed to the archival collection of Claude H. Sterling, Srinagar and England.
Author Claude H. Sterling
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Oil Portrait of Maharaja Virendra Mohan Dar of Akhnoor
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Date 1784
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Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
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Place of creation Kashmir
Source/Photographer Portraits of the Northern Plains: 1780–1900" (Folio III, Plate 22). Attributed to the archival collection of Claude H. Sterling, Srinagar and England.
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